Edwin a



(No Model.)

, A. EPPERi.

EASEL.

No. 425,177. Patented Apr. 8, 1890.

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EDWVIN A. JEFFERY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HOUGHTON & DUTTON, OF SAME PLACE.

EASEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,177, dated April 8, 1890. Application filed August 29, 1889. Serial No. 321,370- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN A. J EFFERY, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Easels,

of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention therefore consists in the OOlIl- IO bination, with the side rails and cross-bars of an easel, of parallel supporting-bars rigidly attached to said cross-bars and provided each with a series of independent supports or hangers, and a rest having hooks to engage said supports or hangers, substantially as will be described.

Figure 1 shows in perspective an'easel embodying this invention. Fig. 2 shows a vertical section of one of the supporting-bars for the rest on a larger scale, and Fig. 3 a modifi cation to be referred to.

The side rails a and cross-bars b are of usual or suitable construction. The rest 0 is provided with two or more hooks c ator near 2 5 its ends. Supportingbars dare secured to the cross-bars I) and arranged parallel with each other, being slitted longitudinally, as at cl, and provided at intervals throughout their length with pins 2 or other independent supports or hangers. The hooks o of the rest 0 are adapted to engage the pins 2.

It will be seen that the rest 0 may be readily detached and applied to any one of the series of supports or hangers 2.

In an easel, the side rails and cross-bars I), combined Wit-l1 parallel supporting-bars d, slotted longitudinally at d and rigidly attached to said cross-bars, and provided each with a series of independent'supports or hang- 4o ers extended at intervals across said slots, and the rest 0, having hooks c projecting from its rear side to enter said slots and e11- gage said support-s or hangers, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDXVIN A. JEFFERY. Witnesses:

BERNICE J. NoYEs, A. S. WIEGAND. 

